PepsiCo on Thursday issued a letter of apology for its new iPhone Application, which was tagged for stereotyping women and making men more of a “chauvinist pig”. However, PepsiCo Spokesperson Nicole Bradley said that the company will not pull out the application from Apple’s online App Store. “The App is only available for users 17 years and older. It was designed for people who are in range of our target market for our Amp energy drink. Besides, it is for the entertainment of people who have chosen to opt in to the Amp experience,” Bradley said, adding that they will... 

One of the biggest wireless carriers in the United States, T-Mobile, has temporarily suspended on Monday the sale of its popular Sidekick mobile phone following complaints by users of massive server malfunction and personal data loss. According to reports, customers said that they have lost saved personal information in their Sidekick mobile phones after its server malfunctioned. Data such as calendar, contact details, and messages were all erased in the process. Due to this reason, T-Mobile has raised the “temporarily out of stock” sign in its website. The carrier has pointed... 

The largest Internet Service Provider (ISP) and high-speed Internet provider in the United States, Comcast Corp., on Friday announced plans to enforce pop-up message service to its customers in a bid to fight the growing problem of “botnets” in its system. In an interview, Comcast executives said that they will ask their customers to enlist their computers to their system in order for them to trace possible infected PCs. Once identified, the firm will send pop-up warnings to the users to let them know that their computers were infected. The infection caused by “botnets”... 

Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. on Thursday shown to the public its new futuristic concept car, called the “Land Glider”. The zero-emission electric vehicle was said to tilt left and right when cornering giving its drivers, or pilots, the distinct feeling of gliding in the air. The new Land Glider was also designed like most airplanes, with aerodynamic and thin frame (3.6 feet wide), that can slice through wind during high-speed runs. It is also a two-seater model. But unlike a regular sports car, the driver and his co-pilot are seated likefighter pilots—the pilot... 

Software giant Microsoft Corp. has blocked on Tuesday thousands of Hotmail accounts after hackers posted its respective passwords in the Internet. Microsoft, in a statement, said that they immediately blocked access to this accounts after hackers were able to plundering account information through phishing activities, then posting the accounts passwords online. Hotmail is the software giant’s free e-mail service. “We are fully aware that several thousands of Windows Live Hotmail accounts have been hacked using phishing scheme. The credentials were then exposed on a certain... 

In a bid to be a major player in “Green Technologies,” Scientists from Taiwan on Friday have revealed its latest discovery, a mobile phone charger that is powered by hydrogen. In a statement released on Friday, researchers at the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Hsinchu city said that the new hydrogen-powered charger can help in bringing more discoveries to help reinforce its efforts to make greener and environment-friendly technologies. According to the scientists, the new hydrogen-powered device can recharge one mobile phone in just less than two hours without... 

Online retail store giant Amazon has agreed on Monday agreed on a settlement over a law suit filed by a high school student accusing the company of indiscriminately deleting an e-book copy he bought for his Kindle reader. Amazon.com has expressed intention to settle the case as it filed the necessary documents at the Seattle-US District Court on Monday. Based on the acquired documents, Amazon said that it will no longer remotely delete copies of e-books from its customers’ Kindle electronic readers. But Amazon has also set several exceptions to the said deal. A US District... 

World’s top software manufacturer Microsoft Corp. said that it is set to launch the new and full version of the antivirus computer software called Security Essentials on Tuesday, to help users shield their PCs from malwares. In a statement, Microsoft executives said that users can start downloading the free version of the Security Essentials next Tuesday. The company has earlier launched the said software in beta version to temporarily protect customers from constant threat of malicious software and other worms that were sent through e-mails. According to the software giant,... 

University of Alabama research in computer forensics Director Gary Warner on Friday said the e-mail spam that pose as an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection scheme has now become the world’s biggest e-mail virus problem. In a statement, Warner said that the spam e-mails used by cybercriminals have now entered its third week and shows no sign of slowing down. The director, citing the report of anti-spam vendor Cloudmark, also pointed that the virus sending campaign has accounted for more than 10 percent of the spam e-mails that they have tracked in the past several days. “Right... 

World’s largest search engine provider Google Inc. has launched on Wednesday an added feature to its toolbar, called the SideWiki. The innovative feature would allow online users to input comments on any webpage they are viewed. According to Google Lab executives, the new SideWiki feature of the website would allow Internet users to comment about anything that they see on the websites. Comments may range from medical topics, safety online and even social networking issues. Google Spokesperson Eitan Bencuya, during the launching, encouraged users to contribute their opinions...